Nicholas Pisano (Nick) is the President and CEO of SNA Software, a certified small, veteran-owned company. He has extensive experience in the software, project, business, logistics, and acquisition management fields, with over 30 years in both government and private industry. He is a retired “mustang” U.S. Navy Commander having served operational assignments at sea and overseas. His final tour, prior to retirement, was as a member of the staff of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition & Technology where he served as Lead Action Officer of Integrated Program Management policy. As part of the first Navy Acquisition Corps, he pioneered several project management techniques and methodologies. His recommendations to the Secretary of the Navy eventually led to many of the acquisition reforms accepted by Rear Admiral Stuart Platt, the first Navy Competition Advocate General, and Dr. William Perry, later Secretary of Defense. Nick possesses a number of personal awards and unit citations for his service.

Prior to founding SNA, Nick drove sales as Director of Sales and Marketing at C/S Solutions, where he established the application wInsight as the de facto industry standard for earned value management. He went on to become Senior Director of EPM Product Marketing at Deltek where he closed the largest sales for the company at that time, but more importantly, continued to influence the methods and policies in the exchange of data between industry and government in the key areas of acquisition and project management.

He is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), a former board member and current member of the College of Performance Management (CPM), a member of the National Defense Industrial Association Integrated Program Management Division (NDIA IPMD) where he previously served as the head of the Contracts Working Group. He has also served as the Managing Editor of the College of Performance Management’s journal, The Measurable News.

Nick holds a B.S. from the University of Maryland (Honors), an M.S. from Pepperdine University, an M.A. from the Combat Studies Institute of the Army Command and General Staff College (Honors), and is a graduate of the senior executive program of the Colgate-Darden Graduate School of Business of the University of Virginia.